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			Also 15 <strong>skamble</strong>, 18 <em>Scottish</em> and <em>dialect</em> <strong>skammel</strong>,  <strong>skemmel</strong>,  <strong>skemmil</strong>,  <strong>skemmle</strong>,  <strong>skemble</strong></span><span id="formsSpanBlock2">.</span><span id="formsSpanBlock3" style="display: none;">... </span><a href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/171837?print#" class="more" id="formsMoreLess" onclick="showMoreLess(&#39;forms&#39;, false); return false;" style="">(Show Less)</a></div><div xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions" xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes" xmlns:avail="java:com.oup.oed.DocExistence" xmlns:util="java:com.oup.oed.Util" class="frequencyBand preEntry"><strong>Frequency (in current use):</strong>&nbsp;
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						</div><h3 id="eid24118923">&nbsp;<span class="numbering"><strong>a.</strong></span>  <em>intransitive</em>. To struggle with others for money, fruit, sweetmeats, etc. lying on the ground or thrown to a crowd; hence, to struggle in an indecorous and rapacious manner in order to obtain something. Const. <em>for</em>, <em>after</em>. <em>Obsolete</em> (now superseded by <a class="crossReferencePopup" rev="/view/Entry/173298#eid24050146" rel="173298" href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/173298#eid24050146" onclick="javascript:window.location = this.href;" onmouseover="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/173298#eid24050146&#39;);return false;" onfocus="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/173298#eid24050146&#39;);return false;" onmouseout="javascript:stopCrossReferencePopup(this);return false;"><span class="xref"><span class="smallCaps">scramble</span> <span class="ps">v.</span></span></a>).</h3></div><div class="frame" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="quotationsBlock" id="eid24118933"><div class="quotation" id="eid24118934"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898536"><span>1539&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">R. Taverner</span> tr.  Erasmus <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0040466">Prouerbes</a></em> sig. C.vi</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				The apes..skambled and went together by y<sup>e</sup> eares for the nuttes.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24118945"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898544"><span>?1553&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0054670">Respublica</a></em> 
		(1952)
	  <span class="smallCaps">i.</span> iii. 7</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				<em>Avarice</em>... Therefore catche that catche maye hardely and spare not—..the devyll ys a knave an I catche not a flyce—..I doubte not to skamble and rake as well as one.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24118954"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898562"><span>1589&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">G. Puttenham</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0001299">Arte Eng. Poesie</a></em>  <span class="smallCaps">i.</span> xxvi. 41</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				Ladies and gentlewomen..with their handes wantonly scambling and catching after the nuttes.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24118963"><span class="noIndent" id="eid312049062"><span>1600&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">P. Holland</span> tr.  Livy <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0000798">Rom. Hist.</a></em>  <span class="smallCaps">xliv.</span> xlv. 1199</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				The king,..laid out fiftie talents among them upon the river side to skamble for.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid125012673"><span class="noIndent" id="eid186636763"><span>1609&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">J. Davies</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0067951">Humours Heau'n on Earth</a></em> clxxxiii. 161</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				Here Bugs bestirre them, with a bellowing rore, (As at a Scamble we see Boyes to sturre) Who for Soules scamble on a glowing flore; Biting and scratching, like the Cat and Curre.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24118978"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898582"><span><i>a</i>1616&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">Shakespeare</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0000166">King John</a></em> 
		(1623)
	  <span class="smallCaps">iv.</span> iii. 147</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				England now is left To tug and scamble, and to part by th' teeth The vn-owed interest of proud swelling <span style="white-space: nowrap"> State.<a href="javascript:void(0);" ref="/oseoReferencePopup?instance=00006618&amp;locus=4.3.146" id="1263078719" instance="00006618" locus="4.3.146" onclick="return(viewOseoPopup(&#39;1263078719&#39;, &#39;00006618&#39;, &#39;4.3.146&#39;));" class="popup oseo" alt="View more context for this quotation" title="View more context for this quotation" deluminate_imagetype="png">
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				I had no money, I wanted impudence, I could not scamble, temporise, dissemble.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24118999"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898595"><span>1636&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">T. Wentworth</span> <em>Let.</em> 25 July in  T. Carte <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0667385">Hist. Duke of Ormonde</a></em> III. 
		(1735)
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				Every man had his money at a day, not scambling one before another without, so much as giving of thanks.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24119013"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898607"><span>1668&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">J. Owen</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0094921">Pract. Expos. 130th Psalm</a></em> 68</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				This may consist with an obstinate resolution to scamble for something upon the account of self endeavours.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24119021"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898613"><span>1687&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">A. Wood</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0036261">Life &amp; Times</a></em> 
		(1894)
	 III. 237</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				After the king had don his breakfast, they began to scramble [MS. 19 D (3) fol. 90 scamble]. [In Wood's MS. drafts of this portion of the <em>Life</em> the word occurs several times, variously written <em>scramble</em> and <em>scamble</em>.]</div></div><p class="quotations"><span class="quotationDate" style="display: none;">1539—1687</span><a href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/171837?print#" class="toggleQuotationsClass" onclick="toggleQuotations(this, &#39;eid24118933&#39;); return false;" id="hideQuotations">(Hide quotations)</a></p></div><div class="bottom" deluminate_imagetype="gif"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="gif">&nbsp;</div></div></div><div class="senseGroup scrollUnit" id="eid24119037" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="top"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="thesaurusWrapper"><a class="thesaurusRef" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="javascript:viewThesaurusPopup(this);return false;" rel="th1/105754/105821/106205/106321/106333">Thesaurus »</a></div>
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						</div><h3 id="eid24119037">†<span class="numbering"><strong>b.</strong></span>  To struggle wildly. <em>Obsolete</em>.</h3></div><div class="frame" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="quotationsBlock" id="eid24119040"><div class="quotation" id="eid24119041"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898621"><span>1591&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">J. Lyly</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0008199">Sapho &amp; Phao</a></em>  <span class="smallCaps">iv.</span> iii</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				He [a stockdoue]..scambling to catch hold to harbor in the house hee had made,..sodainely fell.</div></div><p class="quotations"><span class="quotationDate" style="display: none;">1591—1591</span><a href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/171837?print#" class="toggleQuotationsClass" onclick="toggleQuotations(this, &#39;eid24119040&#39;); return false;" id="hideQuotations">(Hide quotations)</a></p></div><div class="bottom" deluminate_imagetype="gif"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="gif">&nbsp;</div></div></div></div><div class="senseGroup scrollUnit" id="eid24119051" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="top"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="thesaurusWrapper"><a class="thesaurusRef" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="javascript:viewThesaurusPopup(this);return false;" rel="th1/97163/101153/104182/104658/104748/104755/104757">Thesaurus »</a></div><div class="categoriesWrapper"><a class="categoriesRef" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="javascript:viewCategoryPopup(this);return false;" rel="24119051">Categories »</a></div>
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						</div><h3 id="eid24119051">&nbsp;<span class="numbering"><strong>2.</strong></span>  <em>transitive</em>. To scatter (money, food) for a crowd to scramble for. <em>Obsolete</em> exc. <em>dialect</em>.<span class="note" id="eid24119056">Also Scottish (Roxb.) ‘<em>Skemmel</em>, <em>skammel</em>, to throw things hither and thither in a slovenly and careless way’ (Jamieson).</span></h3></div><div class="frame" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="quotationsBlock" id="eid24119059"><div class="quotation" id="eid24119060"><span class="noIndent" id="eid199717005"><span>1573&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">T. Tusser</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0061161">Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry</a></em> 
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	 f. 47<sup>v</sup></span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				Kepe thresshing..to haue to be suer, fresh chaff in the bin. and somewhat to scamble, for hog &amp; for hen.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24119070"><span class="noIndent" id="eid312049070"><span>1600&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">P. Holland</span> tr.  Livy <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0000798">Rom. Hist.</a></em>  <span class="smallCaps">lxix.</span> 1246</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				C. Marius..had purchased a sixth Consulship by a largesse of money skambled amongst the tribes.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24119081"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898648"><span>1894&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">R. O. Heslop</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0005941">Northumberland Words</a></em> (at cited word)</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				At weddings it is customary to scammle money after leaving the church.</div></div><p class="quotations"><span class="quotationDate" style="display: none;">1573—1894</span><a href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/171837?print#" class="toggleQuotationsClass" onclick="toggleQuotations(this, &#39;eid24119059&#39;); return false;" id="hideQuotations">(Hide quotations)</a></p></div><div class="bottom" deluminate_imagetype="gif"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="gif">&nbsp;</div></div></div><div class="senseGroup scrollUnit" id="eid24119089" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="top"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="thesaurusWrapper"><a class="thesaurusRef" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="javascript:viewThesaurusPopup(this);return false;" rel="th122209/144562/146269/146361/146420/146426">Thesaurus »</a></div>
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						</div><h3 id="eid24119089">†<span class="numbering"><strong>3.</strong></span>  To seize in a scuffle; hence, to take in a rapacious or unscrupulous manner. Const. <em>away</em>. <em>Obsolete</em>.</h3></div><div class="frame" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="quotationsBlock" id="eid24119093"><div class="quotation" id="eid24119094"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898654"><span>1599&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">E. Sandys</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0027616">Europæ Speculum</a></em> 
		(1629)
	 150</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				Hee will not be a raiser of new stirrs in Italy; as divers of them to scamble somewhat for theyr owne haue beene.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24119103"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898661"><span>1638&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">J. Ford</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0036635">Fancies</a></em>  <span class="smallCaps">i.</span> 12</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				Perhaps The scambling halfe a duccat now and then To rore and noyse it with the tatling hostesse.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24119112"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898667"><span>1695&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">A. Wood</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0057355">Life</a></em> 9 Nov. 
		(1894)
	 III. 495</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				There were only some gentlemen and ordinary people..in the Area who [after the king's departure] rudely scambled away all the banquet.</div></div><p class="quotations"><span class="quotationDate" style="display: none;">1599—1695</span><a href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/171837?print#" class="toggleQuotationsClass" onclick="toggleQuotations(this, &#39;eid24119093&#39;); return false;" id="hideQuotations">(Hide quotations)</a></p></div><div class="bottom" deluminate_imagetype="gif"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="gif">&nbsp;</div></div></div><div class="senseWrap" id="eid24119125">&nbsp;<span class="numbering"><strong>4.</strong></span> <div class="senseGroup scrollUnit" id="eid24119126" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="top"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="thesaurusWrapper"><a class="thesaurusRef" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="javascript:viewThesaurusPopup(this);return false;" rel="th1/105754/106604/106760/106901/106952|1/84689/86756/87271/87274/87278">Thesaurus »</a></div><div class="categoriesWrapper"><a class="categoriesRef" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="javascript:viewCategoryPopup(this);return false;" rel="24119126">Categories »</a></div>
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						</div><h3 id="eid24119126">&nbsp;<span class="numbering"><strong>a.</strong></span>  <em>intransitive</em>. To make one's way as best one can; to stumble along. <em>literal</em> and <em>figurative</em>. Now only <em>dialect</em>.<span class="note" id="eid24119132">Also Scottish ‘to climb or walk over slight or loose obstacles, to climb over rocks or walls’ (Jamieson at <em>Skemmel</em>).</span></h3></div><div class="frame" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="quotationsBlock" id="eid24119134"><div class="quotation" id="eid24119135"><span class="noIndent" id="eid320998342"><span><i>c</i>1571&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">E. Campion</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0020404">Two Bks. Hist. Ireland</a></em> 
		(1963)
	 To Rdr. 5</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				From thence to Henry the Eighth, because nothing is extant orderly wrytten.., I scamble forward with such recordes as could be sought up.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24119144"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898683"><span>1579&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">S. Gosson</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0219383">Schoole of Abuse</a></em> f. 23<sup>v</sup></span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				I haue in my voyage suffred wrack with Vlisses, &amp; wringing-wett scambled with life to the shore.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24119152"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898689"><span>1621&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">R. Burton</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0010131">Anat. Melancholy</a></em>  <span class="smallCaps">i.</span> <span class="smallCaps">ii.</span> <span class="smallCaps">iii.</span> xv. 181</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				When they contemne Learning, &amp; think themselues sufficiently qualified, if they can write &amp; read, or scamble at a piece of Evidence.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24119163"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898695"><span>1685&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">H. More</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0048163">Cursory Refl.</a></em> 8</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				Having scambled through a multitude of Authors carelesly and superficially, he was [etc.].</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24119172"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898701"><span>1706&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0902752">Phillips's New World of Words</a></em> 
		(new ed.)
	</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				<em>To Scamble</em>, to rove or wander up and down.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24119180"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898706"><span>1901&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">E. G. Hayden</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0426380">Trav. round Village</a></em> ii. 42</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				You had best try an' scamble through the water afoor 'tis too late.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24119188"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898712"><span>1901&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">E. G. Hayden</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0426380">Trav. round Village</a></em> xv. 254</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				How do 'ee manage to scamble along wi'out Kizzy?</div></div><p class="quotations"><span class="quotationDate" style="display: none;">c1571—1901</span><a href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/171837?print#" class="toggleQuotationsClass" onclick="toggleQuotations(this, &#39;eid24119134&#39;); return false;" id="hideQuotations">(Hide quotations)</a></p></div><div class="bottom" deluminate_imagetype="gif"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="gif">&nbsp;</div></div></div><div class="senseGroup scrollUnit" id="eid24119196" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="top"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="thesaurusWrapper"><a class="thesaurusRef" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="javascript:viewThesaurusPopup(this);return false;" rel="th1/84689/87987/87988/87989/88058/88072/88073">Thesaurus »</a></div>
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						</div><h3 id="eid24119196">†<span class="numbering"><strong>b.</strong></span>  To make shift, find means somehow. <em>Obsolete</em>.</h3></div><div class="frame" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="quotationsBlock" id="eid24119199"><div class="quotation" id="eid24119200"><span class="noIndent" id="eid320583306"><span>1608&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0247049">Merry Deuill of Edmonton</a></em> D 4 b</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				Be ready but to take her at our hands, Leaue vs to scamble for her getting out.</div></div><p class="quotations"><span class="quotationDate" style="display: none;">1608—1608</span><a href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/171837?print#" class="toggleQuotationsClass" onclick="toggleQuotations(this, &#39;eid24119199&#39;); return false;" id="hideQuotations">(Hide quotations)</a></p></div><div class="bottom" deluminate_imagetype="gif"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="gif">&nbsp;</div></div></div><div class="senseGroup scrollUnit" id="eid24119207" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="top"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="thesaurusWrapper"><a class="thesaurusRef" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="javascript:viewThesaurusPopup(this);return false;" rel="th1/45969/45970/49644/49645/49809/49823/49830">Thesaurus »</a></div><div class="categoriesWrapper"><a class="categoriesRef" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="javascript:viewCategoryPopup(this);return false;" rel="24119207">Categories »</a></div>
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						</div><h3 id="eid24119207">†<span class="numbering"><strong>c.</strong></span>  To make shift for a meal. <em>Obsolete</em>. <em>rare</em><sup><span class="frequency">—1</span></sup>. (Cf. <a class="crossReferencePopup" rev="/view/Entry/171839#eid24119531" rel="171839" href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/171839#eid24119531" onclick="javascript:window.location = this.href;" onmouseover="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/171839#eid24119531&#39;);return false;" onfocus="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/171839#eid24119531&#39;);return false;" onmouseout="javascript:stopCrossReferencePopup(this);return false;"><span class="xref"><span class="smallCaps">scambling</span> <span class="ps">n.</span> b</span></a>.)</h3></div><div class="frame" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="quotationsBlock" id="eid24119215"><div class="quotation" id="eid24119216"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898723"><span>1591&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">J. Lyly</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0008199">Sapho &amp; Phao</a></em>  <span class="smallCaps">iii.</span> ii</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				<em>Molus</em>. I am in the deapth of my learning driuen to a muse, how this lent I shall scamble in the court, that was woont to fast so oft in the Vniuersitie. <em>Criti</em>. Thy belly is thy God.</div></div><p class="quotations"><span class="quotationDate" style="display: none;">1591—1591</span><a href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/171837?print#" class="toggleQuotationsClass" onclick="toggleQuotations(this, &#39;eid24119215&#39;); return false;" id="hideQuotations">(Hide quotations)</a></p></div><div class="bottom" deluminate_imagetype="gif"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="gif">&nbsp;</div></div></div><div class="senseGroup scrollUnit" id="eid24119227" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="top"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="thesaurusWrapper"><a class="thesaurusRef" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="javascript:viewThesaurusPopup(this);return false;" rel="th1/94518/94519/94541/94543">Thesaurus »</a></div>
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						</div><h3 id="eid24119227">†<span class="numbering"><strong>d.</strong></span>  quasi-trans.  <span class="lemmaInDef" id="eid24119229">to scamble out</span><span class="almostInvisible" id="eid1263078722" xml:space="preserve"> </span><span class="almostInvisible" id="eid1263078723" xml:space="preserve"> </span><span class="almostInvisible" id="eid1263078724" xml:space="preserve"> </span><span class="almostInvisible" id="eid1263078725" xml:space="preserve"> </span>: to get through (a period of time) in a haphazard way. <em>Obsolete</em>.</h3></div><div class="frame" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="quotationsBlock" id="eid24119231"><div class="quotation" id="eid24119232"><span class="noIndent" id="eid320998349"><span><i>c</i>1571&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">E. Campion</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0020404">Two Bks. Hist. Ireland</a></em> 
		(1963)
	  <span class="smallCaps">i.</span> xi. 40</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				In this division thaie scambled out a fewe yeres untill the malice of Carassus, a Britaine, forced a quietnesse betwene them.</div></div><p class="quotations"><span class="quotationDate" style="display: none;">c1571—c1571</span><a href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/171837?print#" class="toggleQuotationsClass" onclick="toggleQuotations(this, &#39;eid24119231&#39;); return false;" id="hideQuotations">(Hide quotations)</a></p></div><div class="bottom" deluminate_imagetype="gif"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="gif">&nbsp;</div></div></div></div><div class="senseGroup scrollUnit" id="eid24119242" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="top"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="categoriesWrapper"><a class="categoriesRef" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="javascript:viewCategoryPopup(this);return false;" rel="24119242">Categories »</a></div>
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						</div><h3 id="eid24119242">&nbsp;<span class="numbering"><strong>5.</strong></span>  To throw out the limbs in a loose and awkward manner in walking; to shamble. <em>Obsolete</em> exc. <em>dialect</em>.</h3></div><div class="frame" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="quotationsBlock" id="eid24119246"><div class="quotation" id="eid125012690"><span class="noIndent" id="eid209415169"><span>1633&nbsp;&nbsp;</span> [implied in:   <span class="smallCaps">J. Ford</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0023834">Loves Sacrifice</a></em>  <span class="smallCaps">v.</span> sig. K<sup>v</sup></span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				Can you imagine, Sir, the name of Duke Could make a crooked leg, a scambling foot,..fit for a Ladies pleasure, no. (at <a class="crossReferencePopup" rev="/view/Entry/171840#eid24119788" rel="171840" href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/171840#eid24119788" onclick="javascript:window.location = this.href;" onmouseover="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/171840#eid24119788&#39;);return false;" onfocus="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/171840#eid24119788&#39;);return false;" onmouseout="javascript:stopCrossReferencePopup(this);return false;"><span class="xref"><span class="smallCaps">scambling</span> <span class="ps">adj.</span> 4</span></a>)].</div><div class="quotation" id="eid125012706"><span class="noIndent" id="eid209415175"><span>1658&nbsp;&nbsp;</span> [implied in:   <span class="smallCaps">J. Rowland</span> tr.  T. Moffett <em>Theater of Insects</em> in  <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0000780">Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts</a></em> 
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	 952</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				The Gnat..hath six long crooked scambling legs..growing from his prominent breast. (at <a class="crossReferencePopup" rev="/view/Entry/171840#eid24119788" rel="171840" href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/171840#eid24119788" onclick="javascript:window.location = this.href;" onmouseover="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/171840#eid24119788&#39;);return false;" onfocus="javascript:viewCrossReferencePopup(this,&#39;/view/Entry/171840#eid24119788&#39;);return false;" onmouseout="javascript:stopCrossReferencePopup(this);return false;"><span class="xref"><span class="smallCaps">scambling</span> <span class="ps">adj.</span> 4</span></a>)].</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24119251"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898753"><span>1825&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">J. Jamieson</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0966191">Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang.</a></em> Suppl.</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				To Skemmel, Skemble, Skammel.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid125012725"><span class="noIndent" id="eid178053847"><span>1852&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">R. S. Surtees</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0006450">Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour</a></em>  <span class="smallCaps">ii.</span> viii. 33</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				On horseback, Tom was a..hard-bitten little fellow.., while on foot he was the most shambling, scambling, crooked-going crab that ever was seen.</div></div><p class="quotations"><span class="quotationDate" style="display: none;">1633—1852</span><a href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/171837?print#" class="toggleQuotationsClass" onclick="toggleQuotations(this, &#39;eid24119246&#39;); return false;" id="hideQuotations">(Hide quotations)</a></p></div><div class="bottom" deluminate_imagetype="gif"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="gif">&nbsp;</div></div></div><div class="senseGroup scrollUnit" id="eid24119259" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="top"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="thesaurusWrapper"><a class="thesaurusRef" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="javascript:viewThesaurusPopup(this);return false;" rel="th1/97163/101153/104182/104309/104594/104604">Thesaurus »</a></div><div class="categoriesWrapper"><a class="categoriesRef" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="javascript:viewCategoryPopup(this);return false;" rel="24119259">Categories »</a></div>
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						</div><h3 id="eid24119259">&nbsp;<span class="numbering"><strong>6.</strong></span>  <em>transitive</em>. To collect in a haphazard or irregular manner; to ‘scrape’ <em>together</em>, <em>up</em>. Now <em>dialect</em>.</h3></div><div class="frame" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="quotationsBlock" id="eid24119265"><div class="quotation" id="eid24119266"><span class="noIndent" id="eid179972450"><span>1577&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">W. Harrison</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0027494">Descr. Eng.</a></em> Ep. Ded.</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				It may be..that your Honour will take offence at my rashe and rechlesse behauiour vsed in the composition of this volume, and much more that being scambled vp after this maner, I dare presume [etc.].</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24119275"><span class="noIndent" id="eid274183314"><span><i>c</i>1592&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">Marlowe</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0012107">Jew of Malta</a></em> 
		(1633)
	  <span class="smallCaps">i.</span> i. B 3</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				They say we are a scatter'd Nation: I cannot tell, but we haue scambled vp More wealth by farre then those that brag of faith.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24119286"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898780"><span>1603&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">R. Knolles</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0017116">Gen. Hist. Turkes</a></em> 541</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				Before the enemie should perceiue the weakenesse of his power, which was not great, and scambled vp vpon the sudden.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24119294"><span class="noIndent" id="eid282345753"><span>1638&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">H. Wotton</span> <em>Let.</em> 6 Nov. in  <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0377568">Reliquiæ Wottonianæ</a></em> 
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	 471</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				With this dispatch I will intermingle no other vulgar subject, but hereafter I will entertain you with as jolly things as I can scamble together.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24119306"><span class="noIndent" id="eid210317941"><span>1834&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0001234">Tait's Edinb. Mag.</a></em> New Ser. <strong>1</strong> 544/2</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				Each might, without much difficulty, ‘scamble up some sort of husband’ from among the corps.</div></div><p class="quotations"><span class="quotationDate" style="display: none;">1577—1834</span><a href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/171837?print#" class="toggleQuotationsClass" onclick="toggleQuotations(this, &#39;eid24119265&#39;); return false;" id="hideQuotations">(Hide quotations)</a></p></div><div class="bottom" deluminate_imagetype="gif"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="gif">&nbsp;</div></div></div><div class="senseGroup scrollUnit" id="eid24119314" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="top"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="thesaurusWrapper"><a class="thesaurusRef" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="javascript:viewThesaurusPopup(this);return false;" rel="th1/97163/100146/100822/100991/101002/101044">Thesaurus »</a></div>
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						</div><h3 id="eid24119314">&nbsp;<span class="numbering"><strong>7.</strong></span>  To remove piecemeal; to cut <em>away</em>.</h3></div><div class="frame" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="quotationsBlock" id="eid24119317"><div class="quotation" id="eid24119318"><span class="noIndent" id="eid199736741"><span>1707&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">J. Mortimer</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0002948">Whole Art Husbandry</a></em> 426</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				Finding my Wood cut in patches, and other parts of it scambled and cut before it was at its Growth.</div><div class="quotation" id="eid24119326"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898808"><span>1888&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0055518">Athenæum</a></em> 11 Feb. 186/2</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				This band..was left untouched when the sculptor scooped or scambled away the substance to give depth of space for the relief of the two figures.</div></div><p class="quotations"><span class="quotationDate" style="display: none;">1707—1888</span><a href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/171837?print#" class="toggleQuotationsClass" onclick="toggleQuotations(this, &#39;eid24119317&#39;); return false;" id="hideQuotations">(Hide quotations)</a></p></div><div class="bottom" deluminate_imagetype="gif"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="gif">&nbsp;</div></div></div></div></div><div xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions" xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes" xmlns:avail="java:com.oup.oed.DocExistence" xmlns:util="java:com.oup.oed.Util" class="lemSect entryBase" id="eid24119334"><h3 class="lemSectType">Derivatives</h3><div class="senseWrap" id="eid24119335">&nbsp;<div class="senseGroup scrollUnit" id="eid24119336" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="top"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="categoriesWrapper"><a class="categoriesRef" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="javascript:viewCategoryPopup(this);return false;" rel="24119336">Categories »</a></div>
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						</div><h3 id="eid24119336">&nbsp; <span class="lemma" id="eid24119337">ˈscamble-shamble</span><span class="almostInvisible" id="eid1263078728" xml:space="preserve"> </span><span class="almostInvisible" id="eid1263078729" xml:space="preserve"> </span><span class="almostInvisible" id="eid1263078730" xml:space="preserve"> </span><span xml:space="preserve">&nbsp;</span> <span class="ps">v.</span> (<em>intransitive</em>) to lounge or shamble. (<em>nonce-word</em>).</h3></div><div class="frame" deluminate_imagetype="unknown"><div class="quotationsBlock" id="eid24119342"><div class="quotation" id="eid24119343"><span class="noIndent" id="eid167898814"><span>1886&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>  <span class="smallCaps">J. Ruskin</span> <em><a class="sourcePopup" onclick="viewSourcePopup(this);" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="0004794">Præterita</a></em> II. ix. 332</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
				He went scamble-shambling on, a plague to the end.</div></div><p class="quotations"><span class="quotationDate" style="display: none;">1886—1886</span><a href="http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/171837?print#" class="toggleQuotationsClass" onclick="toggleQuotations(this, &#39;eid24119342&#39;); return false;" id="hideQuotations">(Hide quotations)</a></p></div><div class="bottom" deluminate_imagetype="gif"><div class="corner" deluminate_imagetype="gif">&nbsp;</div></div></div></div></div><div xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions" xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes" xmlns:avail="java:com.oup.oed.DocExistence" xmlns:util="java:com.oup.oed.Util" class="entryFooter"><p id="shortPubStatement">This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910).</p></div><div xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions" xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes" xmlns:avail="java:com.oup.oed.DocExistence" xmlns:util="java:com.oup.oed.Util" id="datePopupWrapper" style="display: none"><div id="datePopup"><p>
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